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Title: XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition by Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means ISBN: 0-596-00292-0 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.15 (33 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good reference, but where was the editor?
Comment: As usual, this O'Reilly book makes a good reference into XML and is chock full of information. HOWEVER, as it seems to have been the case lately, this book was not very well edited, almost as if they pushed it through to get published.
Examples:
Page 35: ?, *, + are all listed as allowing zero or one element, where they are actually each unique.
Page 133: The authors show linking in an XSL Stylesheet in an XML Document and they list the type of linked in document as "text/xml" which will NOT produce the desired result. They type should actually be "text/xsl". (this can be a quite frustrating error to debug)
Similar examples are scattered throughout, plus their decision to not even discuss XML Schemas leaves me a bit puzzled, but I knew that when I bought the book so I can complain too much.
If you need a good reference to XML, and you can overlook small errors, then go ahead and purchase the book. If the errors bug you then I suggest you wait for the second edition.
Rating: 5
Summary: An in-depth XML reference
Comment: XML
This book's an authoritative document: covering XML basics like DTD authoring and detailed discussion of attribute types - through to the more esoteric issues of character sets and the tricky XML namespace standards.
At every step, I found it easy to follow. It's not a book for the non-computer literate though; more aimed at people with an existing basis of technical knowledge. A techie web-designer would find it a good start. About a third of the book is filled with references. I don't know why, but my heart usually sinks when I see page-filling content like this - that said, ultimately it's the reference books like this that end up covered with scribbles and post-it notes, so while they might not make good reading, they're very useful.
It touchs on all the necessary bases - XSLT, XPath, XHTML, XLink, XPointers, CSS - I could go on. This book does. Heck of a basis for future reading: after two and a half years in XML, there's stuff in here that I haven't come across before!
Rating: 5
Summary: Useful when taking a course in XML.
Comment: I found this book useful for learning XML. Because XML offers a large variety of uses, this book is not well suited for beginners. pvr-consulting
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Title: Learning XML by Erik T. Ray ISBN: 0596000464 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Java & XML, 2nd Edition: Solutions to Real-World Problems by Brett McLaughlin ISBN: 0596001975 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: XSLT by Doug Tidwell ISBN: 0596000537 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: XSLT : Programmer's Reference by Michael Kay ISBN: 0764543814 Publisher: Wrox Pub. Date: 03 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: XSLT Cookbook by Sal Mangano ISBN: 0596003722 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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